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... Jove , much - honour'd , Jove supremely great , To thee our holy rites we consecrate , Our prayers and expiations , King divine , For all things to produce with ease , through mind , is thine . Hence , mother earth , and mountains ...
... Jove , much - honour'd , Jove supremely great , To thee our holy rites we consecrate , Our prayers and expiations , King divine , For all things to produce with ease , through mind , is thine . Hence , mother earth , and mountains ...
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... Jove added venom to the viper's brood . " - Georg . 1. 1. v . 129 . Eurydice died , bitten by a serpent on the heel . ” — Ov . Metam . 1. x . v . 10 . 16. Unto the woman he said , I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception ...
... Jove added venom to the viper's brood . " - Georg . 1. 1. v . 129 . Eurydice died , bitten by a serpent on the heel . ” — Ov . Metam . 1. x . v . 10 . 16. Unto the woman he said , I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception ...
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... Jove's behest Famed Vulcan fashion'd from the yielding clay A bashful virgin's likeness ; Now when his plastic hand instead of good Had framed this beauteous bane , he led her forth Where were the other gods and mingled men . From her ...
... Jove's behest Famed Vulcan fashion'd from the yielding clay A bashful virgin's likeness ; Now when his plastic hand instead of good Had framed this beauteous bane , he led her forth Where were the other gods and mingled men . From her ...
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... Jove , from on high , beheld Absyrtus bleed , And doom'd to punishment that impious deed . Peace or remission , none ... Jove's imperial law , C Who makes the suppliant his peculiar care , And , GENESIS IV . 17.
... Jove , from on high , beheld Absyrtus bleed , And doom'd to punishment that impious deed . Peace or remission , none ... Jove's imperial law , C Who makes the suppliant his peculiar care , And , GENESIS IV . 17.
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... Jove is heard from heaven.- Stop , friends , and grant to me , who grieve for you , that I may save you ! ' " - MAX . TYR . Diss . 36 . Envy is in the same sense ascribed to the Deity by Homer , Herodotus , and others . See Exodus xx ...
... Jove is heard from heaven.- Stop , friends , and grant to me , who grieve for you , that I may save you ! ' " - MAX . TYR . Diss . 36 . Envy is in the same sense ascribed to the Deity by Homer , Herodotus , and others . See Exodus xx ...
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Page 113 - ... and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness : And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited : and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Page 169 - This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand, and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee ; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth : that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear : for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands.
Page 46 - And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him : for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Page 50 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 569 - Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom ; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Page 32 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page 45 - And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said. My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said. Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
Page 23 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Page 603 - And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
Page 505 - They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?